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[graphic c/o Reaganite Republican]

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Gregory of Yardale: "...Within a few years, the socialist experiment failed, as their utopia collapsed..."

Socialism 'works' within small structures where everyone is amenable. A family is a kind of socialist oligarchy. A socialist community like the religious Shakers thrived for decades because its adherents were truly like-minded... survived despite a ban on reproduction! But they were faithful and productive.

In an interview with the last surviving Shakers, one of the women described the last days of the order, before they quit taking in new people, but were taking in people who didn't really fit. She recalls a man who would take extra spoonfuls of sugar in his coffee, even though he didn't like sugar in his coffee, just to be sure he got his share. Sic semper socialism!

otho: "...motorboats mother natures titties...."

Now there's a memorable, graphic turn of phrase.

It's 'not nice to tease Mother Nature,' but mama don't mind nuzzling into her big, soft, warm globes, right?

What?

Mileage-minding government?

Good questions by Conservative Crank.

Let's see...

We'll need a sensor in every car, interfacing with sensors along the roads, so we can keep track of every mile every car travels. That's a good start.

We'll have to have remote ignition kill-switches so cars can be disabled for non-payment of taxes. Or anything else we might need like that.

And don't think you'll get away with anything. The road-monitoring computers will immediately alert the authorities to any un-monitored vehicles.

The collected road taxes and fines should be able to pay off the infrastructure costs for all this by the time the universal monorail system has replaced the car.

Roads? Where you're going, you don't need roads.

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Getting from Here to There
a tedious comic series
http://bit.ly/here2there-01

HR: "Dunno who they all vote for, but they allowed fundraising for the Gosnell movie being written by Andrew Klavan..."

Right, I recollect that now. Thanks, HR.

Don't care who they ballot-box vote for, just who they might choose to effectively "vote" against in service.

Vic: "...interrupted at 3 am to drive neighbor around looking for an open store to buy cigarettes..."

Nicotine is a helluva jones.

Anyone know if IndieGoGo is any less left-leaning than Kickstarter and GoFundMe?

And if conservatives are so smart, how come super-rich regressives run all the giant shows like Gurgle and FeceBook and Twitzler and Wickedpedia?

Morning, Glories.

Thanks for the news, Vic. Looked a little thin on the best part, your editorializing. Must've been a rush job, today.

And the Wisdom of the Day from MP4,

a Great Profile doth not a Great Person make.

J.J. Sefton: And their counterargument is "you're lying and I don't believe you!"

Well, there you go. Can't argue with conclusive logic like that.

"Just because someone claims to follow Christ doesn't
make them genuinely trustworthy, but how could one ever trust anything
said by a follower of Muhumid, even one who claimed to be reformed?

Posted by: mindful webworker - see the light at May 20, 2015 08:32 AM (Xh7t/)"
Blaise Pascal made a similar argument about the trustworthyness of Atheists.

84 Posted by: mindful webworker - see the light at May 20, 2015 08:32 AM (Xh7t/)

The salient point I hit leftists with when they give me the moral relativist lie that all religions are violent is that people corrupt religions and kill in their name contra to the teachings of those religions EXCEPT Islam, which actually teaches to kill and subjugate all infidels and non-believers. You are following the precepts by doing so.

And their counterargument is "you're lying and I don't believe you!"

1bulwetweft: "Islam is a religion of hate, retribution, and death.
"Christianity is a religion of love, forgiveness, and eternal life.
"Simple."

The aspect I find most telling:

One way of believing promotes truth, from the commandment to not bear false witness, to the outpouring of the Spirit of Truth. The other has takkiya, it's called, right? Lying is perfectly fine if it helps spread the cult and undermine the infidels.

Just because someone claims to follow Christ doesn't make them genuinely trustworthy, but how could one ever trust anything said by a follower of Muhumid, even one who claimed to be reformed?

Wait where?

Over here?

Or over there?

Ain' nobody got time fer this!

I need a refill on my coffee but I have cat-a-lapsy.

"if only you could have been out front with me!"

Ha. That's great. Reminds me of "Well, bless your heart." Indirect approach, but dead-center on target.

A Poppins Hollyweird story. Guess this dimension isn't all bad.

I think I've figured it out. The ONT hasn't used up all its comment slots yet! That's what held up the morning thread. So, we can blame the overnighters.

Something is disturbed in the Force.

No Morning Thread, no Vic, and I didn't see anyone commenting about either matter. Which world did I wake up in?

Morning, anyway, Glories.

Just looked at the art thread comments. Crazytown. Time for me to go on about whatever my day is supposed to be. Vaya con Dios, amigos!

mindful webworker, my H uses homeopathic pills for a lot of stuff. The sinus / allergy / cough ones really seem to help D

Poison Ivy? (trigger warning: old phart's ramble follows)

Twenty years back, when we moved to the old family ranch, I started clearing long-neglected trees and fences of a multitude of strangling vines. Despite long sleeves and caution, I ended up with the horror of my youth, poison ivy rash, all down my left forearm. Itching, running, spreading fast, just as bad as it ever had in my woodsier early years, when I could end up bed-ridden for days. Yes, Mom slathered us with that useless pink paste and we were told "don't scratch." Ahhhgggg.

Milady and I had been trying homeopathy out for a while, with surprising success (especially under our homeopathic MD back in Chicago). I took this as a chance for experimentation.

Took the poison ivy remedy. For the first time in my life, the pustules dried up and disappeared, the itching lessened, and the redness began receding, in a little over a day. Normal recession, really, just accelerated.

I was impressed, but then disappointed because there was just one small patch left that, while not pustulating, was still red and itchy. I mused to Milady the Healer, you know, this (the remaining afflicted area) looks like poison oak. So, I took the poison oak homeopathic, and that rash went away, too.

Repeated for several years since. Started taking a maintenance dose in the Spring, and my ivy reactions never came back as bad. Haven't had any in a while, although I haven't been out in the green as much in recent years.

Yeah, yeah, I know, homeopathy. Could all be explained by my more adult tolerance and then developed immunity and the sugar pills do nothing like the skeptics insist. Whatever. Not making a recommendation. Just reporting the anecdotal experience of one long-suffering ivy victim.

If it's all placebo effect, I don't care, as long as it works, right? Apparently psychosomatic auto-healing works for animals, too, per homeopathy's success on several cats' brown recluse bites.

FWIW, reporting from the field - field full of poison ivy, poison oak, poison sumac, and a world of things to make me scratch and sneeze and bleed and ooze.

For once, I followed and thoroughly read every link in BenK's dump. And wasn't bored out of my skull!

Seriously, how will The Federalist, Natl Review, and Jammie get by without the extra hits today?

Oh, look, time to feed the pets.

Turkey's presidential spokesman said on Monday the Middle East would be thrown into turmoil if Egypt carried out its death sentences on former president Mohamed Mursi and other senior Islamists.

O... M... G... !!!!11!!! We wouldn't want the threat of a Middle East thrown into turmoil!! That would be terrible!

Reuters, c/o BlazingCatFur
http://bit.ly/1GlXwSR